Is Linux Lowlatency means Realtime kernel?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:26 +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> No Latency would be realtime

No, (hard) realtime just means that the latency is predictable und all
circumstances and has an upper bound:

"A system is said to be real-time if the correctness of an operation
depends not only upon the logical correctness of the operation but also
upon the time at which it is performed. The classical conception is that
in a hard or immediate real-time system, the completion of an operation
after its deadline is considered useless - ultimately, this may lead to
a critical failure of the complete system."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtime#Hard_and_Soft_real_time_systems